Have been coming to again and again this month. This is the fourth installment of the series. We have focused mostly on architecture. You might recall we had House Speaker on the folklife, but this one is different to me. It speaks very clearly and closely to my heart as a historian. I know visitors that come to d. C. , they want to go to library of congress, they are in on and they should be. Researchers cannot wait to read in the main reading room. It lands a certain something lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. Scholars that really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the madison ling is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts are. I am getting this from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jef
In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the society in particular friend of scholars who work in American History, like my former colleagues and i. For 40 years, put together a document history project, and it brought us to jeff virtually every week. He and his staff helped us produce those volumes. Jeff is the head of the reference and services section. He has been in the management for 31 years, and that is all i will say. I know you are mu
Many people on the website theyre giving a grace period. If you were in line yesterday waiting to sign up and the system told you you had to wait, you could sign up actually by the end of today. Here are obamacare statistics brought to you by cmx. More than 50,000 were on the site. Its only designed to handle that many people and then put you in line. 1. 2 million visitors over the weekend. What officials havent said how many people signed up in the last minute flurry. President obama expects 2 million by january 1st, half of those would have private insurance and the other half government or medicaid or chip. And this is halfway to the goal that the administration projected a couple of months ago and doesnt sclu include the millions of americans who had their health care canceled. The mandates have been delayed and the botched rollout of the website and the numbers are far below what they hoped. The Administration Says it will get better as the website improves. 2014 a lot more goes i
The light and target talks about consumers, higher taxes, unemployment, really looking to the gradual economy as one of the reasons theyre not meeting their profits. Adam following breaking news in the Senate Voting to adopt the socalled nuclear option, changing the rules when it comes to filibuster. Rich edson in washington with how this could have implications on the confirmation of janet yellen to become the next head of the fed. Of the senate had voted this morning on Janet Yellens nomination the chair of the Federal Reserve she would have likely needed 60 votes. Now she only needs 51 and that is the case for any of the president s executive nominees for federal judges. Harry reid has just exercise the nuclear option, changing the rules of the u. S. Senate. Democrats say republicans of blocked president obamas judicial nominees longer and more frequently than any Senate Minority in history. The American People, democrats, republicans, independentss are fed up with this gridlock, th
Stuart here it is. Look at that. The dow is above 17,000. 24 hours ago on this program we call it. Profits up, stocks up, the gop poised to take the senate, 17,000, there it is, 17,007 as of right now. The stock of the day, facebook, down really big after Mark Zuckerberg said he wants tt spend more money on new technology. The news on mobile ads. That doesnt matter to investors. Stock is down 6 . A big draw. Charles payne on whether facebook is a buy at 75. A stock we dont often talk about but is in the news today, with the Orbital Sciences. It is down big. One of their rockets exploded shortly after lift off last night. It was a spectacular explosion. Nobody was on board. Was headed to the International Aerospace station. Nobody injured on the ground despite the size of the massive explosion. The rocket was carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies going up to the International Space station. It was a huge explosion. Everybody knew it and everybody side. We will talk aboot the future of priva